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Sunday, August 30

IS cracks down on western Iraqi town after rare protest

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA15 hours ago

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In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015
photo, Iraqi security forces, backed by Sunni and Shiite volunteers
take combat positions during clash with Islamic State group militants at
the front line in Anbar province, Iraq. (AP Photo)

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants moved
on Saturday to stamp out dissent in a remote western Iraqi town,
detaining at least 70 and tying dozens of residents, including tribal
leaders, to streetlight poles as a punishment, security officials said.

The
crackdown followed a rare street demonstration on Saturday to protest
the extremist group's execution of a local resident, they said. The
protest by hundreds of residents in Rutbah, in Anbar province, was
triggered by the execution earlier on Saturday of Munir al-Kobeisi, a
civil servant, for killing an IS member. The killing was part of a
long-running blood feud between two local clans.

Relying
on sketchy information from Rutbah, in Iraq's far west near the
Jordanian border, the officials said they didn't know the whereabouts of
the detained residents. The militants, they said, tied two residents to
each light pole and that the town was gripped by fears that the group
would carry out mass executions.
Elsewhere in Anbar, much of which
is under IS control, a roadside bomb on Saturday hit a border guard
convoy making its way to the border crossing of Trebil on the Jordanian
border, security officials said.

Five
officers were killed in the attack — which bore the hallmarks of the
Islamic State group, whose militants are active in the area near the
Jordanian and Syrian borders.

The officials also said a pair of
roadside bombs killed five people and injured 19 south and west of
Baghdad on Saturday. Also in the capital, assailants using pistols
fitted with silencers killed two people in the Jihad neighborhood in
western Baghdad before they fled in a car.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.